“This Is Father Berrigan Speaking from the Underground”: Daniel Berrigan SJ and the Conception of a...

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Title: “This Is Father Berrigan Speaking from the Underground”: Daniel Berrigan SJ and the Conception of a Radical Theatre;
Authors and Corporations: Halligan, Benjamin
In: TDR/The Drama Review, 62, 2018, 2, p. 97-114
published:
MIT Press - Journals
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 97-114
ISSN: 1054-2043
1531-4715
DOI: 10.1162/dram_a_00750
published in: TDR/The Drama Review
Language: English
Subjects:
Literature and Literary Theory
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Collection: MIT Press - Journals (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> The letter “Father Berrigan Speaks to the Actors from Underground” suggests the conception of a radical theatre, intended as a contribution to a cultural front against the US government as it escalated the war in Vietnam. Berrigan’s dramatization of the trial in which he and fellow antiwar activists were arraigned for publicly burning draft cards in 1968, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, coincided with Berrigan’s efforts to continue his ministry while a fugitive. </jats:p>